Rethinking 'Progress': An evaluation of the Wellington Regional Genuine Progress Index - Softcover

Packard, Aaron

 
9783843362856: Rethinking 'Progress': An evaluation of the Wellington Regional Genuine Progress Index
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3843362858 ISBN 13: 9783843362856
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

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There is widespread and long?running discontent with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of progress for society. A number of alternative measures have been proposed, including the Genuine Progress Index (GPI). A GPI has been developed by local government in the Wellington region (New Zealand) to facilitate a rethinking of conventional notions of ?progress'. The Wellington Region GPI (WRGPI) is a pluralistic index consisting of environmental, social, economic and cultural indicators with either physical or monetary values. This study explores a ?good practice' approach to public participation in the development of the GPI, and provides an overview of the context within which it fits. It considers the institutional barriers to the implementation of the WRGPI and provides recommendations of how deliberative and social learning techniques could be used to increase the likelihood that conventional notions of 'progress' will be replaced with more holistic ones.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3843362858
ISBN 13 
9783843362856
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Anzahl der Seiten
124
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